Francis Drake: Pirate,
Explorer or Privateer?
ACTIVITY 1: LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANCIS
DRAKE
Key Stage 2 – Francis Drake: Pirate, Explorer or Privateer?
Sir Francis Drake
Key Stage 2 – Francis Drake: Pirate, Explorer or Privateer?
A description of
Francis Drake
Writer John Stow
describes the
reaction to Drake in
England after his
circumnavigation.
“[Drake’s] name and fame
became admirable in all places.
The people swarmed daily in the
streets to behold him … Books,
pictures and ballads were
published in his praise …
There were others that devised
and divulged all possible
disgraces against Drake and his
followers, terming him the master
thief of the unknown world.”
Key Stage 2 – Francis Drake: Pirate, Explorer or Privateer?
World map, 1570
Key Stage 2 – Francis Drake: Pirate, Explorer or Privateer?
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
Key Stage 2 – Francis Drake: Pirate, Explorer or Privateer?
Philip II,
King of Spain